Civic Innovation
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Harper Reed: “The power is not the mashup. It’s the data.”
When most people go to the CTA Bus Tracker Web site and click on Estimated Arrival Times or the Bus Location Map, they see a way to find out when their next bus might get to the stop near them. Another nifty map mashup they can use to plot their trips daily. When Harper Reed saw the same…
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Review of NYC.gov Picture and Video Submission Program
Yesterday the City of New York launched the ability for citizens to send images and video directly to their 911 and 311 systems. On the 311 side, people can submit for six types of service requests: On the 911 side, it’s not exactly a real-time process. Essentially, the caller indicates to the 911 operator that…
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The Return of Oakland Crimespotting
Stamen Design’s visually rich and data-intense Oakland Crimespotting is up and running again. This is a huge victory for open civic data.
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New York City Department of Sanitation has its own CraigsList for stuff
The NYC Stuff Exchange is a website that encourages people to buy, sell, rent, ore repair stuff instead of add it to the garbage heap. It’s a great idea, and they have lots of ways to find vendors who will help you out. One thing I’d like to see in their extensive databases is a…
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Towed Buicks in Chicago
The Chicago Tribune has a new service that queries the Chicago Police towing database and plots it on a Google Map. Here’s the lifted Buicks.